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How do you eat an elephant?

It's been a while since I posted; life, family, work and hobbies all shift in priority from time to time. I've still been busy, more collecting than modelling though, and now I find myself running out of storage space for my stock. Some OO stock will have to go soon to make space as I've really can't see myself going fully to OO and seem to have settled firmly on N now. Though that said, I did buy a sample pack of a wagon and some easy track from the 2mm Assocation a month back.   The little m

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Bad Fruit

After spending a while matching the background colour of the decals to the blue of the van (I lightened the original blue with a hint of Coach Roof Off White RC417), the decal was ready for printing.   One tip to save using a full sheet of A4 decal paper; print the decal out on normal paper at draft quality, then cut a portion your decal paper to overlap and match it and tape it the decal paper over the draft printout being careful to leave enough around the edges to prevent the tape from bein

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Fruit Transfers

After a week of waiting for a reply from Fox, Cambridge Custom and Modelmasters and still not a peep (a bit disappointed in the lack of response tbo) I've decided that I'll have a go at making my own decals. So I ordered some decal paper, white and clear and I've read up a fair bit on how to best go about this.   I'll be using my BR Fruit D as a test case, but there's a big catch. The only way to print white on a deskjet is to print the decals on white paper using a colour to contain the white

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Painted Fruit

After priming with Halford's grey primer, I tried using Humbrol Rail Colours Acrylics for the first time.   Dirt Black (RC401) for the underframe. BR Diesel Blue (RC411) for the body. BR Coach Roof Grey (RC412) for the roof. I mistakenly used Garter Blue (RC404) for the body, (why don't they print descriptive text on the tins?)and was happy with that, until I realised my mistake and so applied a thin coat of BR Diesel Blue. I'm still not sure about this colour, but I'm planning to gi

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More Fruit and a Mink

A quick update to the Fruit D. I didn't like the thickness of the six plasticard steps so I've replaced them with some strip brass. A very fiddly job in this scale, but I think it makes a big difference.     I was also planning to put some electrical fittings on the end, but after a mock up with some wire I decided that as the relief of the ironwork on the ends of the van is way out of scale that this would only draw attention to that fact so I ditched the idea. The only thing I would like

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Fruit D

After what seems like a year or two of collecting stuff and not doing stuff, I've actually got my finger out and started to turn a few of those kits into reality.   First up on the workbench is the Fruit D kit from PD Marsh. This is a whitemetal kit, and comes with no chassis or roof, though there are some under frames and a cylinder included.     It's very straightforward to put the body together using superglue. My soldering skills would probably be more like melting skills so I opted

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